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Cruise is back doing what comes naturally. No, not impossible missions, this time round Cruise is back on Sci-fi but instead of running from crimes he already commit in the future(How long has it been now since minority report?) he finds himself the maintenance man of a post-apocalyptic earth in 2077. Jack Harper is technician #49 of a group specifically tasked with keeping Earth's remaining defences up and running, alongside partner Victoria he awaits the coming full transportation to the new human colony on Titan. Being one of the last to leave Earth, both are anxious about the final few days of maintenance before they can finally leave the blue planet behind them, though for different reasons. While Victoria is increasingly eager to start a new life, something digs at Jack who still relates some connection to the planet no matter how void of life. It's only after a crashed pod brings an echo of human life back to earth that Jack ...

As far as video game movies go, Resident Evil has never really been at the top of that list. We start off where Afterlife ended, with Alice and co under attack from a newly replenished force of Umbrella Corporation goons and what tries to be a stylish use of filming techniques coupled with a tedious ten minute flashback of the previous films. Captured by umbrella, Alice awakens in yet another science lab full of nasties but this time she finds replicas of time square, the Kremlin and segments of suburbia which have been used to test the virus on live subjects welcoming her on her escape. Led by the mysterious Ada Wong and a now friendly Wesker, Alice has to make her way through the submerged Umbrella base, fight fields of zombies, horrific Lickers and even face of against her brainwashed bestie in order to make it out alive. Elsewhere in the facility another group also led by Wesker attempts to find and rescue Alice, will any of them survive another dance with the evil, newly resurrect...

Life is a loop. For Loopers when the loop finally closes, it's a cause for celebration but for their future selves 30 years away it means game over. A Looper kills whoever appears in front of them and eventually that means themselves, sent back through time by mobsters as in 2074 bodies are to hard to get rid of its an easy buck for an average kind of killer. Joe a Looper from 2044 finds his faith in the job wavering when his friend Seth let's his loop run(letting his older self escape) and he hands him in to keep his stash of silver. Though when a spree of loops start closing in quick succession Joe finds himself face to face with himself, overpowered by his future self his loop runs. Present Joe sets out to close his loop and save his life while future Joe wants to stop the villainous future Rainmaker who causes a world wide spread of chaos. Present Joe soon realizes he'll do anything to keep his life while his other self has the same revelation selfshness and desperation...

Out with the old in with the new, the new law that is and his name is Dredd. Putting on the helmet and out to steal a better sense of law, Judge Dredd is back on the big screen and streets of Mega-City One to hand out justice to the masses. A new drug swamps the city streets and Judge Dredd is eager to kick start a crackdown after encountering a minor crime while at the same time he finds himself training the new flunky recruit and psychic, Anderson. Giving Anderson first pick of which call to respond to, she chooses the killing and skinning of three men in 200 floor slum, Peach Trees. Inside and finding a minor drugs exchange occurring, the judges set about bringing down the law until that is Ma-Ma the self imposed ruler of Peach Trees finds out. Sealing the whole complex into an emergency shut down, the judges find themselves in the deep end with no way out and a war waged against them by the lowest of the low and none of them are fond of the law. Dredd and Anderson have to make thei...

As the year drudges on through the summer onslaught yet another remake is thrown into the mix to make the days of originality feel that bit more dull. An all out nuclear war leaves the world a desolate place, wiping out must of humanity only leaving the remnants of Australia now known as the Colony and the United Federation of Britain in it's wake. Down on his luck and stuck in a mundane life in the slums of the Colony, Douglas Quaid is eager to escape his everyday labour anyway possible. As if an answer to his sullen mood, he hears about Rekall from a co-worker, a place where you can have the dreams and memories you desire imported straight into your head. Quaid sees it as an opportunity to live the life of his dreams, but when the procedure begins it triggers what appears to be long lost memories of his real identity and life. Quaid soon realizes nothing is as it seems as he tries to recall his memories, avoid his decoy wife trying to kill him and find out why he's become a ...

In a dystopian future law and order have taken a drastic turn in the form of the judges, an ominous force assigned to keep the peace in Mega-City One. Among their ranks, the legendary Judge Dredd who will do everything and anything to keep and maintain justice prevails on the streets. However when damning evidence comes to light and Dredd is beileved responsible for first degree murder, he is forced to abandon his city, his law and his purpose. Dredd sets out to retain his Judge status and fight for the law he upholds with a vengeance, with his lawgiver fire arm primed to shoot a mass amount of deserved justice at his enemies, can Dredd prove his innocence and once again bring judgement to his enemies? Sylvester Stallone is Judge Dredd, as usual he brings forth the testosterone fueled rampage that can be expected from him, while it works scenes which should be handeled with saitre and irony are brought to the silver screen with far too much realism. You would think Stallone thought h...

Where did we come from and why are we here? Are the central questions that plague the Prometheus and her crew as it descends upon LV-223. After discovering several archaeological findings Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway set out to find their answers striking a deal with the major international Weyland Corporation and CEO Peter Weyland, who also has his eyes set on finding humanities lost tale of origins. Upon landing on LV-223 the crew soon realize that the race they nicknamed Engineers who invited them to their world may have other plans in mind for humanity. Shaw's beliefs in science and god are soon brought into question along with the creation of humans and their purpose pushed along by a cyborg named David and the Weyland Corporations own voice of input in Meredith Vickers it soon comes to light that like the truth of creation, the real intentions of the Prometheus aren't as what Shaw is led to believe. The Girl with the Dragon tatt...

Here come the Men in Black, The boys are back in town or at least one of them is with the other looking considerably younger and dare i say peppy. On a secret moon prison far above the earth, the menacing alien threat Boris the Animal finds a way to break free and exact his revenge on the MIB agent responsible for his stint in LunarMax, K. Meanwhile J and K are up to the usual MIB day-to-day business of bringing galactic menaces to judgment this time in a Chinese restaurant, when Boris turns up to goad K with his freedom the two agents find themselves at a difference of opinion and split off K reminiscing other past mistakes and J broading over his incomprehensible partner once again. On arrival at MIB HQ the next day J finds that K has vanished from everyone's memories and informed by Agent O that K died in 1969, confused by the apparent change to the time space continuum J soon comes to the conclusion that...

Fresh from the Capitol and pages of Suzanne Collins is the 74th annual Hunger Games! Katniss Everdeen, our leading heroine lives in the twelfth district of those that surround and make up the nation of Panem and has to deal with the hardships of poverty in her district hunting with her best friend Gale Hawthorne for food to survive while those in the Capitol live in luxury. 74 years ago when the districts tried to rebel against the tyrannical Capitol and lost, the Hunger Games came into existence as a means of punishment. Now every year two children from the ages 12 - 18, one boy and one girl, are picked out from each district to fight amongst one another to the death in the arena as both a punishment for the districts and entertainment for the Capitol. When Katniss' sister Prim is selected for their district she frantically volunteers in her sister's place to face the games alongside the local baker's son Peeta Mellark. Soon Katniss finds herself preparing...

Disney throw out another live-action blockbuster trying to enthrall the big kids. After a few establishing flashbacks to set the scenery and apparent death of John Carter, the action skips even further back in time and when we catch up with our hero he's far out of his comfort zone on Earth, instead trapped on Mars though not with out some fancy new talents to help him out against some equally new and menacing alien threats. Not a barren land but rather a lively world where warring civilizations struggle for control, the Mars John Carter faces is full of Martian combatants who capture Carter and on seeing his skills plan to use him as a weapon against the other civilizations on Mars. With Red Martians(Human like) warring amongst themselves with the aid of the mysterious Therns and keeping the native martians at bay, Carter is thrown into this new galactic warfare with much distaste and realizes he needs to find his way back to Earth before he too becomes a victim of the war wa...